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C. G. DOBBS. GARMENT PASTBNBR.

Patentfu` Apr. 24, 1883.

` UNITEDV STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES e. Donna-OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARM ENT-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,367, dated April 24, 1883.

Application filed March 14, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, CHARLES G. DoEBs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Garment-Fasteners, of which the following is a specication. Y

The object of my invention is to furnish a cheap, convenient, and easily-made buckle or garment-fastener. I have designed it more particularly for use with a shirt having the characteristics of the one for which I have obtainedSLetters Patent N o. 261,318, dated July 18, 18 2.

My present device is made of light sheet metalsuch, for instance, as brasswhich can be cut out, struck up, and finished quickly and with small expense. It is a small skeleton plate of this metal which has tive cross bars or strips connecting its longitudinal edges, the two outer or end strips being .de-

. pressed bodily, so that they shall lie in a plane dierent from that in whichthe other bars or strips are situated, thus bringing the edges of the said end strips which are contiguous to the next adjoining strips or bars into a position in which they can be made to .bite and retain the ends ot' the tapes or straps.

The fastener is illustrated clearly in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan, and Fi g; 2 is a longitudinal section, of it. Fig. 3 represents the device connected to tapes applied to a shirt-sleeve, as in my Letters Patent above referred to.

The fastener consists of a light plate of sheet metal, whose longitudinal edges a are connected by cross-bars b c c d d, formed by slotting or cutting out the plate, as will be readily understood. The center bar, b, separates the two inner bars, c c, around which the respective tapes e are passed, and prevents the tapes from interfering with' one another. The end bars, d, are depressed or bent bodily,

so as to lie in a different plane from that in which bars o c are situated. They can be thus bent at-the time the fastener is struck out. The free end of each.'tape passes under the plate, up through the slot between the center bar, b, and one of the bars c, over the latter bar, then down through the slot, between bar c and the adjoining end bar d, and then under the latter bar, between it and the main part of the tape. The tapes can thus be firmly 4held by the fastener, while at the same time they can freely be drawn up or let out, and the fastener itself can readily be detached from or applied to them.

The fastener thus formed is cheap,ieasily and quickly made, and is entirely efficient.

I am aware that a slotted frame has been combined with a rectangular loop, in the manner described in Letters Patent No. 174,844. I am also'aware that a. shoe-buckle has been made consisting of a curved plate provided with a number of slots and a pin on the central b'ar of the plate for holding the straps, as described in Letters Patent No. 183,789. I claim none of these things.

The fastener consisting of the skeleton sheet-metal plate having the two lbars c and intermediate bar, b, and the two end bars, d, bent or depressed bodily, as hereinbefore shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of March, 1883.

UHAS. G. DOBBS. 

